Course Reading and Viewing Materials

Please read/view materials before the class session for which it is assigned:

Day 1: Mon, 5/25/2015

• No readings/viewings before class begins

Day 2: Tue, 5/26/2015: Emergence and distribution of print texts

• Read: Baron, From Pencils to Pixels
• View: Stephen Fry - The Machine That Made Us (first 15 minutes)

Day 3: Wed, 5/27/2015: Rise of mass media

• Read: Randle, A historical overview of the effects of new mass media
• View: Gilmour, A Brief History of Media (5 min)

Day 4: Thur, 5/28/2015: Development of the internet

• Read: Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
• View: Shirky: Institutions vs. Collaboration (21 min)

Day 5: Mon, 6/1/2015: Consumer participation and design in media culture

• Read: Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture (pp. 1-34)
• View: Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? (20 min)

Day 6: Tue, 6/2/2015: Representations of race, class, and gender across media

• Read: The Critical Media Project, Race and Ethnicity (visit main page and at least one sub-page)
• View: Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media (5 min)

Day 7: Wed, 6/3/2015: Visual and digital media

• Read: Doug Belshaw, The history of 'digital literacy'
• View: Doug Belshaw: The essential elements of digital literacies (17 min)

Day 8: Thur, 6/4/2015: Critical media literacy

• Read: Hobbs, Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement
• View: Creating critical thinkers through media literacy: Andrea Quijada (7 min)

Day 9: Mon, 6/8/2015: Examining the ecology of social networks

• Read: boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Introduction)
• View: danah boyd: It's Complicated: Teen Privacy in a Networked Age (22 min)

Day 10: Tue, 6/9/2015: Gaming and participatory media

• Read: JimGee, Games and Learning: Teaching as Designing
• View: Jim Gee, Principles on Gaming (24 min)

Day 11: Wed, 6/10/2015: Describing our understanding of the media ecology

• Read: Media Ecology Association: What is Media Ecology?
• View: Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble (9 min)

Day 12: Thur, 6/11/2015: Final multimedia project presentations

• No readings/viewings because of final presentations